blocked

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /blɑkt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /blɒkt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒkt

Adjective

blocked (comparative more blocked, superlative most blocked)

1. Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.

   This road is blocked, so we must find another route.

   Call a plumber to unclog the blocked drain.

2. Unable to move owing to an obstruction.

   The argument was over a blocked car in a driveway.

3. (of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.

   Blocked users will be unable to access their accounts indefinitely.

   The phone will reject calls from blocked numbers.

4. (of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access or from performing certain actions.

   All of this user's accounts are now blocked.

5. (Ireland, slang) Drunk
   • 2019 January 4, “'Drunk' Co Tyrone teenager smashed car into solicitor's office in Dungannon”, in The Irish News‎^[1]:

     McKenna was found to be heavily intoxicated, and after caution he swore and replied: "I'm blocked."

6. (crosswording) With black squares separating the lights and marking the ends of words.

   Antonym: barred

   • 2012 September 7, Chambers, The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     In practice, setters of most normal blocked grids in daily or Sunday newspapers in both Britain and the US do not have to concern themselves with grid construction.

   • 2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     Listener endgames have included […] shading every instance of the letters N - Z in the completed grid to reveal a' normal' blocked crossword hidden in the one just solved

   • 2024 October 10, Richard Coles, Charles Spencer, Cat Jarman, The Rabbit Hole Book: Discover the brilliant book from the creators of the unforgettable hit podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, Random House, →ISBN:

     American crosswords tend to be straightforward, while English ones delight their contestants by being cryptic and, unless 'quick' crosswords, are often set in a 15 × 15 blocked grid.

Synonyms

• (obstructed): choked, clogged, forwrought (obsolete), impedite (obsolete)
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• blocked shot
• blocked up
• handblocked
• immunoblocked
• nonblocked
• unblocked

Translations

obstructed, of movement

• Finnish: tukossa (fi) (adverb); suljettu (fi), ruuhkautunut
• German: gesperrt (de)
• Spanish: cerrado (es), obstruido (es), cortado (es), bloqueado (es), trabado (es)

obstructed, of flow

• Finnish: tukossa (fi) (adverb); tukkeutunut
• Maori: purutiti (referring to the nose when suffering from a head cold), puru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilstoppet

• Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş)
• Persian: کیپ (fa) (kip)
• Spanish: estancado (es), obstruido (es), tapado (es)

Verb

blocked

1. simple past and past participle of block

Anagrams

• bedlock, deblock